Hi all,
On Tuesday, September 28, 1999, 11:45:48 AM (-5 GMT), Steve scribbled:
> Nope, initials are allowed. Generally if you have the quote prefix within
> the first, uhmmm, I think it is 5 characters it is ok.
For TB!, it's 20 characters. Is this 5 character limit a de facto
standard which TB! could potentially breach when using first names in
the quote prefix?
TB! is the first windows based e-mail client that I've used that uses
text before the quote prefix ">". Anyone know of any others?
> Quite a few do from my perspective. Of course, that perspective is the
> Unix world, not the Windows world.
I guess Unix has been around longer than windows and a lot of these
de-facto standards stem from it's userbase so we should adhere to them.
:-/ The windows clients should then support it. Those initials, break
the color coding on windows-based clients pretty much across the board.
Even the venerable Pegasus Mail. The paragon of standards eh Alexander?
:^)
>> By the way, I thought that the quote prefix was used mainly to differentiate
>> quotes from non-quotes?
> Yes. The defacto standard is >. Software, knowing this, uses that to
> color the quotes to make it stand out even more. Some will even color
> different levels of quotes with different colors.
That's true. I've seen that once.
>> This color coding that you speak of seems to be confined to only a limited
>> number if clients
> Again, from your perspective maybe. From mine it is common fair. It is
> actually uncommon for me to see clients that don't do coloring of that nature
> any more.
Interesting.
Thanks for the info Steve. I do learn a bit from you but after reading
your previous post I had better read very carefully and not piss you
off. <ducking and madly running :-DD)
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Regards,
-=Ali=-
>>> Not a computer nerd; merely a techno-weenie. <<<
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